massacre
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Grassroots and volunteer organizations have been founded for visiting the wounded in hospitals, caring for children who lost parents, helping rebuild war-affected areas and many other causes related to the massacre.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Eric Bana plays Avner, a Mossad operative sent to hunt down the Palestinians whom Israel holds responsible for the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
To survivors of the Srebrenica massacre, the death of former Bosnian Serb military leader and war criminal Ratko Mladic changes little about his legacy.
From Barron's ● Aug. 28, 2026
Responding to the Schenectady massacre, forces raised in New York and New England staged an invasion of New France in the following summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The following is an abridged version of the first column to run after the Columbine massacre.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
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“This work will continue for many, many years,” said Popek, who lost his grandfather and more than 20 other relatives in the massacres and has been doing exhumations in the Ukrainian region for 35 years.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026
“There were massacres against Indigenous communities, they were forced to have one religion,” Sheinbaum said last week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2026
According to the UN, around 115,000 people have entered Lebanon from Syria since the fall of Assad, many of them since the sectarian massacres that targeted the Alawite minority on the Syrian coast in March.
From Barron's ● Feb. 5, 2026
The man in the tub is the French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat, a journalist and physician who had incited a series of judicial massacres.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 21, 2025
The massacres had happened over two hundred years ago, but the wound they’d made in our cultural history was left raw and festering, like a fault line that may begin trembling again at any moment.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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The tension on “The French Chef” was about a massacred bûche de noël or whether that roast-chicken-to-come was being abused.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026
During a session on Iran's record, Bahreini urged the UN's top rights body to instead discuss the Iranian cultural heritage under "indiscriminate" attack and "the innocent children massacred at their school desks".
From Barron's ● Mar. 16, 2026
We’re living in such a different time with social media now, but back then, thanks to these brave journalists, there were physical representations of civilians being massacred, innocent families.
From Salon ● May 20, 2024
Richard said: "To get even one goal was a surprise, that was a delight. I think I will wake up in a minute and we will be getting massacred 7-0."
From BBC ● Jan. 27, 2024
‘Clarisse, I get your point. But have you studied Roman engineering? Their temporary camp is better defended than Camp Half-Blood. Attack them at their base, and we’d be massacred.’
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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The Sri Lankan army spokesman, Brigadier Waruna Gamage rejects allegations that security forces buried civilians after massacring them.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026
The H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu, has created an enduring crisis this year, massacring millions of birds and other wild animals, while stirring outbreaks in dairy farms across the U.S.
From Salon ● Oct. 10, 2024
She made it sound as if they were massacring endangered baby eagles.
From Slate ● Feb. 16, 2019
TV drama is singing, like an inescapable, drunk, intolerably male karaoke singer massacring Like a Virgin, from the same hymn sheet.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2013
The Clonmacnoise Manifesto, inviting the Irish "not to be deceived with any show of clemency exercised upon them hitherto," hardly supports the diatribes against Cromwell's "massacring" propensities.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 09 — Lives and Letters by Arthur Mee
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